Dropsy

Harkening back to the classics, this gives a fresh and simple take on an old genre. You are tasked as Dropsy to help out with the townspeople's doldrums, and to give lots and lots of hugs. The story is simple, heartwarming, and a bit humorous, without a single spoken word of English. All of the characters communicate to each other with these cute little picture boxes that are incredibly easy to understand. The graphics are amazingly detailed, with it being classic pixel graphics. At around 4-5 hours of gameplay, it's definitely worth the asking price.

I really enjoyed this game. Everything is conveyed through a combination of character animations and pictograms (emojis for you younger folks) through dialog boxes in place of text, but does it so well that I never felt confused as to what a character was thinking or trying to communicate to me as the player. The story and environments take on a feeling of sadness and it's your goal as Dropsy to help people feel happy again, no matter how badly they may treat you initially. The puzzles are fair with plenty of context clues and practically no pixel hunting as long as you pay attention. It was very obvious that the developer took great care in accentuating important details while avoiding insulting the player's intelligence. There is a good amount of collectables, hidden visual lore, and even puzzles that are not essential for completion of the game, for those that like to explore every nook and cranny of games.

I guess I'm the odd one out on this one. It's not fun, I originally bought it assuming it would be a good, point and click creepy, adventure game and it was creepy but not in a good, game playing way, more of a what-the-heck way and the non-verbal aspects are just plain annoying. Hard pass.

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Played on steam. Man such a lovely cute terrifying happy nightmare game with so much heart from the pixel art to all the atmospheric perfect music. Dont miss out. Buy at full price if you can its totally worth it.